Varsity Baseball Tuesday, April 20/4pm Northgate (Away) Thursday, April 22/4pm Northgate (Home) Friday, April 23/4pm Concord (Away) JV Baseball Tuesday, April 20/4pm Northgate (Home) Thursday, April 22/4pm Northgate (Away) Saturday, April 24/11am Concord (Home) Frosh Baseball Monday, April 19/4pm San Ramon (Away) Saturday, April 24/12pm & 2pm Northgate (Away)
First year Head Coach Connor Hornsby is looking to get the Varsity team back on track after a rocky first week. Last year’s season saw a majority of the starters graduate but a talented group returns and is supplemented by at least 4 sophomores. Next week, a number of starters will be returning as well after football wraps up it’s…
The JV Dons have been eager to get back on the diamond and came out swinging in their season opener against College Park. They met a hungry opponent and the Falcons jumped out to an early lead. The Dons showed grit, turning some great plays, loosening up the pitching rotation and hitting the ball hard. Acalanes Dons JV watched the…
Baseball isn’t a timed game, but it is a game all about timing. Unfortunately, on Monday the Dons were on the wrong side of Father Time. Despite having many more base runners, the Dons couldn’t come up with timely hits, and fell 7-4 to a strong San Ramon Valley team. The Dons left six runners on base in the first…
Our Varsity Lady Dons visited College Park on Tuesday night. Freshman Grace Imrie and Senior Lyla Cox scored early, thanks to assists from Senior Grace Gebhardt. The Dons then struggled on both ends of the field for a while until Coaches Bill Fraser and Mark Rurka called a timeout. They had the girls run their own time out to “figure…
After an unexpected transformer failure at Acalanes this Friday, our track team hastily changed plans and headed over to Northgate high school in Walnut Creek. What followed was our team’s most dominant performance of the year. While there were many great individual efforts throughout the day, the story of the meet was our relay teams. On the Girls side,…
The mighty Dons swim team ended their season on a high note with strong performances at both the DAL Varsity & JV Championship meets held this past weekend. Participating teams included Acalanes, Campolindo, Miramonte, Northgate and Las Lomas. After competing on Friday in the prelims, the team had 24 swimmers qualify for the finals on Saturday. Varsity was led by top…
Acalanes swim team ends their season this week with the DAL Varsity and JV Championship meets to be held at Campolindo.On Wednesday Dons Swimming took a break from practice to recognize and celebrate our seniors before their final swim as part of Acalanes swim team this weekend. Congratulations to the following swim team seniors: Luke Watson, Ethan Walker, Liam Stephenson,…
JV Stays Undefeated with Win over Clayton Valley The Lady Dons played at Las Lomas Tuesday. The Dons defense, led by Senior goalie Della Pascucci held up well early in the first half, creating time for the offense to find their rhythm. Sophomore Haley Rurka scored two goals and an assist, Senior Coco Fellner added two more goals and two beautiful give-and-go…
This past Saturday, the Dons Track and Field team traveled to nearby Miramonte High School for their season opening scrimmage and first meet since March 11, 2020 (1 year and 9 days ago, for those of you who are keeping track (pun)). The proud coaching staff would like to salute each and every Acalanes athlete who competed. Due to the…
